I don't intend to retire.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.